Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 273: Mana 800, Magic Pressure 900!

One year later.
In Locke's simple laboratory, Locke soaked in the last portion of Tartarus Cavern Worm Spinal Fluid.
At the same time, he drank a potion from a glass bottle that contained a blood-red eyeball. After drinking this potion, both of Locke's eyes released an eerie red glow.
At the bottom of his eyes, his pupils reflected the light of the abyss.
After a year's time, Locke had used Memory Ointment and Beholder Potion to enhance his memory and perception. Through the luxury of continuously repeating failed potion concoctions, he had elevated his potion-making skills and mastered the concoction of the extremely difficult Beholder Lord Potion.
Being able to concoct this level of potion meant that Locke's potion-making ability had already reached the highest level of a potion master assistant, and even vaguely had a trend of going further and exploring upward.
Beholder Potion was already the highest level for a potion master assistant, let alone the even more advanced Beholder Lord Potion.
Potion studies was, after all, a discipline combining theory and practice. As long as he was given enough materials to squander, raising his level was really the simplest thing.
This point was the same in the fields of enchantment and alchemy. Many things that looked very complex were actually just repeating existing things, not doing research and development. Therefore, with enough practice sessions and practice materials, one could achieve in a short time what others hadn't accomplished in ten years.
And with Locke's monthly income reaching thirty-six thousand, he could squander over ten thousand magic stones each month to purchase materials and improve his potion studies level.
Currently, Locke's savings had already reached two hundred thousand magic stones.
This year, he had also sporadically received some outside order requests, so his savings weren't one hundred eighty thousand magic stones, but two hundred thousand magic stones.
After Locke drank the Beholder Lord Potion, his mental power continuously surged. He himself seemed to become a giant Beholder Lord spanning heaven and earth, commanding all beholders. With his movements, countless eyeballs followed him.
"I am the supreme master of eyeballs! I am the Beholder Lord. All eyeballs should obey my commands! I am the eyeball that rules the world!" Locke's expression became fanatical as he raised both hands.
"Starting from the wizard world, invade here, rule here, turn this place into my eyeball world."
As a result, he activated a magical trap he had set before taking the potion. Immediately, a cool water ball fell from above and smashed onto his head.
Locke instantly sobered up. "What the hell? Were those words I could actually say? The mental side effects of the Beholder Lord Potion are even greater than I imagined."
"But fortunately, with my current constitution, I'm still in a relatively safe domain."
"However, the aggressiveness of life forms from the abyssal plane is even stronger than I originally estimated. That aggressiveness comes from the abyssal energy itself, so I estimate all abyssal life forms possess strong aggressive traits."
Although he hadn't actually seen any abyssal life form yet, Locke had already predicted the basic personality characteristics of these life forms from his research on abyssal energy.
Locke placed his palm on the amethyst matrix, joy flashing in his eyes. "After a year, my mana has finally reached 800."
"This way, I can go to the academy to apply for an advancement potion."
Joy appeared on Locke's face. Who would have known that the amethyst matrix would flash another line of numbers again, 900.
The deep purple magic pressure from Locke's palm permeated the amethyst matrix. From that magic pressure came a power that made one feel uneasy.
"Mana 800, magic pressure 900." Locke's expression was strange, "Mana and magic pressure should originally correspond one-to-one. Normal wizards are all like this. If they can't correspond, then there's only one possibility, that is, I have a second power source in my body besides my own mana source."
"Just like what happened when I used Black Chain Sword Bamboo before, Albert's external magic pressure remaining inside the sword bamboo enhanced my magic pressure."
As a potion master assistant, Locke pondered, "This situation appearing is very likely because over the past half year, I've been taking the Beholder Lord Potion twenty times monthly for a long period, as well as over the past most of the year, I've been taking the Beholder Potion twenty times monthly for a long period."
"Beholder Potion is fine, but Beholder Lord Potion is actually a new type of potion. Besides beholder materials, it also mixes in a finger material from a Tanar'ri demon."
Locke repeatedly pondered the efficacy of this abyssal potion while consecutively releasing magic pressure twice. Once was the normal magic pressure of a purebred wizard, which was invisible magic pressure.
Only Black Chain Sword Bamboo would transform his invisible magic pressure into black magic pressure.
The second type of magic pressure was purple-black magic pressure, which was magic pressure entangled with abyssal energy.
Two numbers appeared on the amethyst matrix, 800 and 900 respectively.
Locke frowned, "As expected, my guess was correct. Because I've been taking Beholder Lord Potion for a long period, I've actually constructed an independent abyssal energy circulation in my body."
"This part of power provides me with 100 points of magic pressure."
"I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."
Locke pondered briefly and accepted it. "Whatever, my mana is already mixed with a lot of ether elements anyway."
"It was caused by absorbing many Rose Red Jades to improve my mental power during my second-class wizard apprentice period. Now to become a formal wizard, I've absorbed a lot of abyssal energy, which is also normal."
"Formal wizards basically all have various side effects. I'm still doing well."
After all, many things were used directly on themselves after they researched them.
To be honest, sometimes with some things, the side effects only gradually manifested after use.
And pursuing absolutely no side effects was basically impossible.
Even potions that had passed phase three trials and been used for decades would have some minor side effects, and even in certain special situations, would have serious side effects.
Locke tested several more times and found that with this abyssal energy, he temporarily hadn't found in which part of his body a sustainable independent energy circulation had formed but in any case, it seemed to have truly become a kind of power of his own.
Therefore, it didn't have much impact on him. Only when using it would his emotions become somewhat more violent and more aggressive.
In normal times, it had no effect on him at all.
This was also normal. Even if abyssal energy naturally possessed strong aggressiveness, overall speaking, this wasn't an energy that wanted to self-destruct, so it wouldn't threaten the main body.
Secondly, with his current mana of 800, a mere 100 points of abyssal energy couldn't affect him at all but if the proportion increased a bit more, it would be hard to say.
Locke pondered, "This problem can be researched after I become a formal wizard. But in any case, currently speaking, it actually only has benefits for me."
"The quality of abyssal energy is very high, so it can stack my magic pressure, allowing me to have only 800 mana yet stack up to 900 magic pressure. This greatly increases my combat power and actually brings me closer to a formal wizard, making breakthrough easier."
"Over this year, my mana has already reached 800. With the help of massive funds, my accumulation in breeding studies and potion studies has also been learned to the peak. With the help of Teacher Halen Vera, my understanding of plant magic has also gone up a level."
"The current me is almost only one step away from formal wizard." Locke pondered, "But precisely because of this, I must be even more careful."
"All along the way, countless geniuses have fallen at this step of breaking through to formal wizard."
"The secret realm guardian wizard and Elagabalus's first wife are both precedents."
Locke walked out of the bathtub and changed into a set of clean clothes, then rang the copper bell to notify the servants to come clean up.
"Which magic to choose for the permanent defensive field must be carefully considered. My priority choices are either the life field or... the information about that magic obtained from the secret realm."
Over this year's time, Locke had already finished reading all the reference books for Life Force Field and Oak Armor. Ultimately, he decided that if he had to choose between the two magics, he would definitely still choose Life Force Field.
Oak Armor followed the direction of specializing in treant magic, an even smaller direction within the plant magic sub-direction of the Life School.
Life Force Field, on the other hand, was a general type of plant magic that could form an invisible permanent life energy protective shield around oneself and coordinate with multiple plant magics.
It was currently the plant-based defensive magic most suitable for himself.
If he chose this magic, Locke could liquidate his two hundred thousand magic stones in resources right now and start preparing for breakthrough.
But after thinking it over, Locke still decided to first exchange the three wizard secret realm resources he had accumulated and the opportunity to enter the Forbidden Forest. After obtaining that sealed special-grade research project results, he would then judge which magic to choose as his direction and make it his permanent defensive field.
This year, he was still selected as a wizard seed and breeding studies rising star, thus obtaining two more opportunities to enter wizard secret realms.
Ordinary secret realms could be quickly farmed through.
He could also fulfill his duty as essentially the eldest senior brother among Halen Vera's students, bring along some junior brothers and sisters, select three ordinary wizard secret realms, and quickly farm through them.
Locke thought about it, came to the study, and began writing applications to enter Twilight Garden, Extreme Cold Iceland, and Tesla Wasteland respectively.
These three apprentice-level wizard secret realms posed no threat and no difficulty for his current self with 900 magic pressure. He didn't need preparation and could easily dig out large amounts of the 'ore' he needed from them.
Once again, he would increase the accumulation of magic he needed.
Next, Locke prepared to go to Halen Vera's office to inquire whether Teacher Halen had any students recently who wanted to enter wizard secret realms together with him.